The House of the Seven Gables: A Review
Dark yet romantic, eerie yet cheerful, The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a book that subtly sets up and defends an interesting case on the theme for Pride and Nobility between generations of family. The haunting novel revolves around the remaining descendants of a once-wealthy and proud generation displaying the family’s downfall and the ripples of influence that take place leading all the way back to the ancestor that started it all.
This Book had some solid characters and a few characters that I would sometimes just feel bad for. Hepzibah, especially, for that matter because she is just another person trying to make ends meet while all her cousins and brother are out looking …show more content…
I recollected on how I went into this book expecting just another tale about ghosts and the paranormal. And how, to the contrary, The House of the Seven Gables took a much more psychological turn into the entire aspect of legacy and pride and how downfalls may happen in certain systems. Especially when following the Pyncheons and how they have spread apart in search for their ancestor’s hidden deed to all the land he had acquired, the narrator informs us on how, searching for the deed itself “resulted in nothing more solid than to cherish, from generation to generation, an absurd delusion of family importance, which all along characterized the Pyncheons. It caused the poorest member of the race to feel as if he inherited a kind of nobility, and might yet come into the possession of princely wealth to support it”. This smart and well-deserving turn the Book took really pioneered the Psychological Horror genre and displays Hawthorne’s prowess in setting a mood.
The House of the Seven Gables stands up there with the best of the best with what it does. It lays down a beautiful situation in which it wastes no time beating around the bush with. Each word in the novel feels purposeful and elaborates the many complexities of life and family legacies. Truly a remarkable Author, I cannot wait to read more of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s extraordinary books like The Scarlet
Dark yet romantic, eerie yet cheerful, The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a book that subtly sets up and defends an interesting case on the theme for Pride and Nobility between generations of family. The haunting novel revolves around the remaining descendants of a once-wealthy and proud generation displaying the family’s downfall and the ripples of influence that take place leading all the way back to the ancestor that started it all.
This Book had some solid characters and a few characters that I would sometimes just feel bad for. Hepzibah, especially, for that matter because she is just another person trying to make ends meet while all her cousins and brother are out looking …show more content…
I recollected on how I went into this book expecting just another tale about ghosts and the paranormal. And how, to the contrary, The House of the Seven Gables took a much more psychological turn into the entire aspect of legacy and pride and how downfalls may happen in certain systems. Especially when following the Pyncheons and how they have spread apart in search for their ancestor’s hidden deed to all the land he had acquired, the narrator informs us on how, searching for the deed itself “resulted in nothing more solid than to cherish, from generation to generation, an absurd delusion of family importance, which all along characterized the Pyncheons. It caused the poorest member of the race to feel as if he inherited a kind of nobility, and might yet come into the possession of princely wealth to support it”. This smart and well-deserving turn the Book took really pioneered the Psychological Horror genre and displays Hawthorne’s prowess in setting a mood.
The House of the Seven Gables stands up there with the best of the best with what it does. It lays down a beautiful situation in which it wastes no time beating around the bush with. Each word in the novel feels purposeful and elaborates the many complexities of life and family legacies. Truly a remarkable Author, I cannot wait to read more of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s extraordinary books like The Scarlet